I was a young man in ‘68 when he was first elected. (Everyone I knew hated him. That’s kindaTrumpian I suppose). Any questions you might have regarding his term(s) I’d be happy to address. I even remember the campaign slogans. His wage/price freeze was utterly unconstitutional. He ushered in Jimmy Carter. That alone is enough to condemn him. Still better than LBJ though.
He wasn’t exactly Trumpian. That is, he negotiated an end to the long running Vietnam war which Biden closely emulated in Afg. IMHO we’d won that war by ‘69.
(after Tet and the battle of Hue the NVA had shot their wad. They were wiped out. The uprising they sought in South Vietnam didn’t happen. We’d won. Until, that is, Walter Fucking Cronkite surrendered for us on national television. That broadcast convinced Ho Chi Minh, or so he said, to continue diplomatically after he’d lost militarily.)
We could/should have finished off Uncle Ho. Nixon also relied a little too heavily on Kissinger. They micromanaged the war. He also cultivated Maoist China, based on faulty assumptions, leading to our current problems. Thanks Hank.
Well I was curious about if you recall if Nixon actually explicitly admitted to ordering the Watergate spying. My teachers insisted he did and tried to shut me down for questioning it, though I couldn't really find any concrete evidence of this.
The White House tapes didn’t have Nixon planning any breakin. Lots of really lowdown talk, (“expletive deleted” became a joke) but no planning breakins. He was railroaded for trying to cover it up. He definitely did that. Even admitted it. He didn’t think he’d get in so much trouble because he was President. It was the first case of “The coverup is worse than the crime.” Made it into a conspiracy to obstruct justice.
So, you might say he was robbed of a second term he won massively. Like DJT.
He had an enemies list. Kind of a paranoid guy. He was supposedly afraid the DNC had information indicating he’d been in Dealy Plaza that fateful day. That’s what G. Gordon Liddy said anyway. He’s an interesting character also. Roger Stone with a loaded gun iykwim. He later toured the country “debating” Timothy Leary. It was a cheap tawdry way to make money out of a national tragedy, but that’s not unusual either.
Here’s an MSNBC article so your teachers will trust it. They say it can’t be determined conclusively, which means they failed to prove it despite transcripts of the whitehouse tapes.
I loved studying about Nixon for my high school IB Extended Essay (any IB students here?).
In a way Nixon was the pre-Trump. Funny how Trump was mentored by Nixon and was a great friend to JFK Jr.
I was a young man in ‘68 when he was first elected. (Everyone I knew hated him. That’s kindaTrumpian I suppose). Any questions you might have regarding his term(s) I’d be happy to address. I even remember the campaign slogans. His wage/price freeze was utterly unconstitutional. He ushered in Jimmy Carter. That alone is enough to condemn him. Still better than LBJ though.
He wasn’t exactly Trumpian. That is, he negotiated an end to the long running Vietnam war which Biden closely emulated in Afg. IMHO we’d won that war by ‘69.
(after Tet and the battle of Hue the NVA had shot their wad. They were wiped out. The uprising they sought in South Vietnam didn’t happen. We’d won. Until, that is, Walter Fucking Cronkite surrendered for us on national television. That broadcast convinced Ho Chi Minh, or so he said, to continue diplomatically after he’d lost militarily.)
We could/should have finished off Uncle Ho. Nixon also relied a little too heavily on Kissinger. They micromanaged the war. He also cultivated Maoist China, based on faulty assumptions, leading to our current problems. Thanks Hank.
Well I was curious about if you recall if Nixon actually explicitly admitted to ordering the Watergate spying. My teachers insisted he did and tried to shut me down for questioning it, though I couldn't really find any concrete evidence of this.
The White House tapes didn’t have Nixon planning any breakin. Lots of really lowdown talk, (“expletive deleted” became a joke) but no planning breakins. He was railroaded for trying to cover it up. He definitely did that. Even admitted it. He didn’t think he’d get in so much trouble because he was President. It was the first case of “The coverup is worse than the crime.” Made it into a conspiracy to obstruct justice.
So, you might say he was robbed of a second term he won massively. Like DJT.
He had an enemies list. Kind of a paranoid guy. He was supposedly afraid the DNC had information indicating he’d been in Dealy Plaza that fateful day. That’s what G. Gordon Liddy said anyway. He’s an interesting character also. Roger Stone with a loaded gun iykwim. He later toured the country “debating” Timothy Leary. It was a cheap tawdry way to make money out of a national tragedy, but that’s not unusual either.
Here’s an MSNBC article so your teachers will trust it. They say it can’t be determined conclusively, which means they failed to prove it despite transcripts of the whitehouse tapes.
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/nixon-40th-anniversary-order-the-watergate-break-msna387256